nabab
\na.bab\
The verdict
“nabab” is uncommon French (frequency #66,149 among 1,563 “N” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #66,149
- frequency rank, French
- 1,563
- “N” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Prince dans l’Inde moghole.
Corpus desk
Index FR-nabab · nabab · French
nabab · rank #66,149 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #66,149
- LEN-MID 5 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 1,563
- PHOTO-FINISH naissantes
Nearest frequency peer: naissantes (+1 rank slots)
Desk codes from Wiktionary headword shape, FrequencyWords rank tier, confusable-pair count, generated misspelling depth, letter-cohort book size, and photo-finish peer. Not a difficulty grade.
Rangs de longue queue près de « nabab »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- Mérida
Mérida
33,856 corpus weight
- métastase
métastase
33,855 corpus weight
- nabab
nabab
33,852 corpus weight
- naissantes
naissantes
33,851 corpus weight
- Najib
Najib
33,850 corpus weight
- nau
nau
33,849 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « nabab » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | nabab |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \na.bab\ |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #66,149 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « nabab » en français
Rare enough to double-check
nabab is uncommon French at frequency #66,149 among 1,563 “N” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \na.bab\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
No generated misspelling entries exist for nabab in our index, typically a sign the spelling maps closely to how the word sounds. Our confusable-pair dataset has no match for it, since nothing in our dataset looks or sounds close enough to cause mix-ups.
This entry carries no recorded etymology, so its spelling is best read as a straightforward mapping from sound to letter. The correct French form is nabab, spelled N-A-B-A-B.
Definition
- 1Prince dans l’Inde moghole.
- 2Personne riche.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how nabab appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Le nabab de Visapour traitait alors avec le pescha, chef de la République maratte, de la levée de plusieurs escadrons qu'il voulait prendre à sa solde.
C’est quelque nabab qui arrive de l’Inde.
This word in other languages
Definitions, pronunciation, and etymology for this entry are drawn from Wiktionary via the kaikki.org structured extract (CC BY-SA); frequency ordering uses the FrequencyWords open word-frequency list (2018 French corpus, MIT). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.
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